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S. M. BIXBY.

METAL BOTTLE FOR LIQUID BLAGKING.

No. 368,318. I Patented Aug, 16, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL M. BIXBY, OF NE IV YORK, N. Y.

METAL BOTTLE FOR LIQUID BLACKING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,318,dH ed August 16, 1887.

Serial No. 232,753. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. BIXBY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improved Metal Bottle for Liquid Blacking and otherPurposes, whereof the following is a specification.

The object of this improvement is to pro vide a bottle for liquid blacking, of superior form and construction for use, from material that will not break in handling, packing, and carriage, one that occupies the least space for the amount of liquid contained, and very economieal in cost ofmanufircture and transportation.

Bottles for liquid blacking applied with a sponge attached to the stopper have had the neck or nozzle set above the body of the bottie and made with a flaring mouth adapted to hold a stopper firmly and provide space for the back flow of surplus liquid exuding from the sponge by the compression thereof incident to its insertion in and removal from the as seen in my Patent No. 273,444, issued March 6, 1883.

In myimproved bottlethe orderis reversed, the body or sides extend above the aperture in the top for emptying or removing the contents, the top is made concave and saucerlike, and the nozzle is inverted and made to depend by its upper end from the top of the body, so as to reach down into thebottle, instead of standing up outside thereof, by which arrangement the necessity ofthe ordinary protruding neck is dispensed with.

The annexed drawing, which is designed to illustrate my invention, represents a vertical longitudinal section, with the stopper and sponge indicated in dotted lines.

In the drawing, A indicates the sides or bodyof the bottle, which may be round,square, or other shape in crosssection. WVithin this is inserted a concave disk B, secured to the sides A. The center of the disk has an aperture, and in this a tube or nozzle, 0, is hermetically affixed, so as to depend therefrom into the bottle. As this tube receives the cork or stopper, it dispenses with the necessity of having a neck above the body of the bottle.

In my patent above referred to the neck was made with the narrow part below and I gradually widening upward; but from the fact that the amount of liquid in the sponge is greatest when the sponge is being withdrawn and least when thrust back after using, I have found it advantageous to have the widest part of the tube or nozzle 0 placed downward and the narrow part above, so that the sponge when withdrawn from the liquid is gradually compressed along the whole length of the tube or neck. In consequence, when the sponge emerges from the top and expands it is nearly freed from surplus liquid, and hence there is lessliability ofspatteriugand soiling thehands, while in restoring the sponge to the bottle the liquid, ifany remain. is caught in the saucerlike top and flows back into the bottle after the sponge has passed down through the tube or nozzle. The sides of the tube are curved, giving the nozzle a bell-shaped mouth, such curve acting to prevent the lower edge from tearing the sponge when withdrawing it from the bottle. The curvature may be more or less, so long as it serves the purpose.

By means of the concave disk B and bellmouth tube, arranged as above, I secure the best results, both in taking out the blacking in the sponge and in reinserting the spongein the bottle.

In practice the bottle is only filled with the liquid up to or a little above the lower end of the tube 0. This leaves an unfilled space around the tube above the liquid and under the top of the bottle, which space constitutes an air-chamber.

The liquid blackings are all more or less effervescent, and the airspace aids in preventing the spatter-ing and foaming of the liquid in withdrawing the sponge from the bottle.

On reinserting the sponge the liquid, when the sponge strikes it, is forced outwardly toward the sides of the bottle and up into the air-chamber.

The foregoing improvements produce a package lighter than glass, for which it is a cheap substitute, not liable to break or spill the contents. Its compact form and inverted nozzle occupies the least possible space, gives the consumer the same amount of liquid at less cost per bottle, and ships as fourtlrclass freight, instead of the expensive first-class,

thus saving materially in cost of transpdrtation.

I claim as my invention 1. A metal blacking-bottle having an in- 5 verted-bellshaped nozzle affixed to the top of the bottle, with its flaring mouth depending downward into the bottle.

2. A metal blacking-bottle made with a de- 

